Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Series: Modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.; Faust, d. ca. 1540 -- In literature.; Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.; Faust, d. ca. 1540 -- In literature.; Magicians in literature.; Tragedy.; English literature -- History and criticism.
Description: A collection of seven critical essays on Marlowe's drama, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 137-140.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Five-act structure in Doctor Faustus / G.K. Hunter; title: Doctor Faustus's sin / Wilbur Sanders; title: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the ends of desire / Edward A. Snow; title: Doctor Faustus, master of self-delusion / Barbara Howard Traister; title: Faustus's rhetoric of aspiration / Johannes H. Birringer; title: Doctor Faustus (ca. 1589-92), subversion through transgression / Jonathon Dollimore / Doctor Faustus and hell on earth / Christopher Ricks.